Random Thoughts: My Take on Movies

Random Thoughts: My Take on Movies

I keep reading in my Entertainment Weekly, and other movie type magazines and shows that the “summer blockbuster” is not what it used to be. The latest article was that the latest Tom Cruise Movie, “Night and Day” opened to the lowest numbers EVER for a Tom Cruise Action movie. Personally, I thought it looked good, but what I don’t think the movie people out there are considering is the fact that maybe it’s not the movies that people aren’t going to see…that MAYBE it’s the RIDICULOUS price tag of those particular movies!

Almost a year ago I wrote a post letting everyone know that I was boycotting moviet theaters. These days, by me in New York the price of a movie ticket is almost $12!! If just me and my husband go, then it’s $24 plus any popcorn and drinks HE may want to get (I never buy anything from the theater since it’s such a rip off!) . Now, if I just wait a few months, that same movie will be out on DVD for around the same price as our 2 movie tickets, we then get to own the movie, and get to watch it comfortably in our own home.

How about all this 3D hype. Sure it’s kind of cool, but it costs me almost $20 a ticket to go see the movie??? I feel bad for families with kids that want to go see these movies. How could a family of 4 afford it?

Somethings gotta give and I’m not sure what it is. Either actors need to stop requesting 20 million, and/or the studios have to stop paying it! Then maybe they wouldn’t have to charge so much for us to see a movie! Or is it just that the cost of running a theater is going up? If so that’s gotta stop! I think we need to go back to when it was $5 to see a movie! I would be much more willing to go if that were the case.

So…. silly movie statistics people…you need to think about more than dollars and cents when making judgments. Look at our economy people! Who can afford it! I feel bad for all those families who made Toy story 3 one of the top movies this summer! They had to go broke doing so!

very luckily my boyfriend works at a movie theatre and we get in free all the time but 3D is REALLY worth it! It literally changes the entire movie experience. IMAX 3D will change the way you watch movies forever!

I guess the one “benefit” of not living in a major metro area is that our ticket prices aren’t *that* high (yet). Still, we’re perfectly happy to wait for DVD and spend $10 a month on Netflix for the pleasure of having them mailed (or streamed) to us!

We do matinees & use the discount tickets you get in things like entertainment book. We don’t see grown up movies much and Leah & Matt go to see most kid films because I can’t see 3D and when I can it makes me sick. They enjoy 3D a lot so it works out.

The prices are only going to keep going up. The movie industry posted top profits last year. People may be hurting financially but somehow they still manage to buy hundreds of dollars in fancy phones, computers, video games (sales have not dropped only risen)…people sacrifice for their entertainment.

On Toy Story 3- it was more than worth the price tag. I grew up on those movies, and Leah has as well. Matt and Leah had a blast going to see it. She still hasn’t stopped talking about it. It is funny because I would not pay that kind of money to see a movie but don’t blink an eye at doing it so Leah can enjoy it.

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After the Alter is a blog about my "life after the alter" meaning after being married, and the changes that go with it. I am a mom to a beautiful boy and girl who are the stars of this blog, and a little Pomeranian named Tinkerbell. I LOVE being married to Captain Awesome, and here I share stories of my life as I learn how to be the best wife and mom I can be, and all my crazy thoughts along the way.